{"id":119,"date":"2008-11-13T12:00:40","date_gmt":"2008-11-13T11:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/warriorshepherd.com\/blog\/2008\/11\/13\/iraq-war-journal-entry\/"},"modified":"2021-05-04T21:52:32","modified_gmt":"2021-05-04T19:52:32","slug":"iraq-war-journal-entry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/warriorshepherd.com\/blog\/iraq-war-journal-entry\/","title":{"rendered":"Iraq War Journal Entry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>This came out of my journal that I randomly wrote in during my travels in and around Iraq.\u00a0 I&#8217;ll try to post more as I remember&#8230;this is a short one.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>16 April\u00a0\u00a0 &#8211;\u00a0\u00a0 0131 hours<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>I fly on an Osprey tomorrow&#8211;another first.\u00a0 This may sound weird, but I was just walking to the WC [bathroom] and was struck by God&#8217;s glory.\u00a0 In the middle of what would seem to be a &#8220;God-forsaken&#8221; land&#8211;He Is Still Here.\u00a0 &#8220;The Glory of God Fills the Temple&#8221;\u00a0 I pray that I won&#8217;t forget this&#8211;I won&#8217;t forget what I&#8217;ve done [here], or what I&#8217;ve seen.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>A little back story:\u00a0 There were two things that contributed to making the skies over Iraq gorgeous:\u00a0 one, the dust perpetually in the atmosphere made for some of the most amazing sunsets I&#8217;ve ever seen, and two, the lack of lights at night meant that the starry sky was breathtaking.\u00a0 Also, the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/V-22_Osprey\" target=\"_blank\">Osprey<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This came out of my journal that I randomly wrote in during my travels in and around Iraq.\u00a0 I&#8217;ll try to post more as I remember&#8230;this is a short one. 16 April\u00a0\u00a0 &#8211;\u00a0\u00a0 0131 hours I fly on an Osprey tomorrow&#8211;another first.\u00a0 This may sound weird, but I was just walking to the WC [bathroom] [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/warriorshepherd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/warriorshepherd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/warriorshepherd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/warriorshepherd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/warriorshepherd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/warriorshepherd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3032,"href":"http:\/\/warriorshepherd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119\/revisions\/3032"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/warriorshepherd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/warriorshepherd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/warriorshepherd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}